The first thing any normal, sane person in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo will tell you when you mention Shizuo's name is "If you see that guy, run. Don't look him in the eye, don't talk to him, don't talk loudly around him --just run." And they're right, Heiwajima Shizuo is bad news. Dubbed, quite appropriately, the strongest man in Ikebukuro, Shizuo has strength like you won't even imagine. He can catapult vending machines miles away, literally punch a guy right out of his clothes and to the other end of the street, and rip signboards out of their cement foundation like one would pluck a flower. The weirdest thing? He is 100%, no-mistake-about-it, human. His biological composition is just like that of everyone else in the series, but there is one very important factor that makes that huge difference in power
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So, after that day, it started: his violent, shitty childhood. With lifeless eyes, Shizuo -- who was only in the third-grade at that time -- endured everything. Was it painful? Fuck yes, but he never complained --simply accepting it as a physical manifestation of his anger. It wasn't long before Shizuo was thrown into a vicious cycle. Violence brought him pain, pain brought him frustration, frustration led to anger, anger lead to violence - and so on. Violence - as much as he despises it - is a natural impulse to him. The brain, overcome by fury, would scream commands at the body to exhaust the environment and achieve one particular goal - destruction. (Destroy that bastard, destroy everything around you, kill him, crush him, tear his limbs.) It wasn't long before the young Shizuo succumbed to the impulse. Well, actually, it wouldn't be wrong to say he barely even tried resisting to begin with. He had a choice: Brave the beast within --through grinding teeth and trembling, bloody, clenched fists-- or simply detach himself, remove
( ... )
Imagine, then, how he felt when he passed by her shop one day --to find his favourite shopkeeper being bullied by a group of mobsters. Anyone would be pissed. She was such a nice lady. Who the hell did those mobsters think they were?! Of course, if this was enough to ruffle the feathers of a regular person, then there was no telling what Shizuo's reaction would be. A snap of the lollipop he was holding, a stomp as it cracked into a million shards under his foot, and everything went blank. There were no more coherent thoughts in that child's head; only a messy stream of 'killDESTROYkillSLASHkillCRUSHkillNOMERCY'. The body moves before the conscious mind can stop it; and when Shizuo finally came back to reality, he was standing amid the warzone he crafted with his own hands. There were bodies piled up around him, and he recognises one of them by her pretty apron and soft, closed eyes.
Shit, he screwed up.Shizuo couldn't look that woman in the eye after that. Who could? What he had inflicted on her and her store was far more severe
( ... )
It turned out that Izaya was pulling the strings all along. He had framed Shizuo for countless things he did not do; so generously making enemies for him out of people he had never even met. Shizuo was right about his first gut feeling -- Izaya is nothing short of a huge douche. And so, upon realising this, it began. Sparks would fly whenever the two of them caught even the slightest glimpse of each other; and not so long after, a classroom door or maybe a water cooler would follow suit. The quiet school life he had envisioned was moving further and further from his reach -- and it was quite clearly that damn louse's fault. Shizuo began to hold a grudge for Izaya. One he would keep all the way until adulthood
( ... )
He gets released soon after when they finally confirm his innocence, and walks out unemployed once more. It isn't a good feeling. What about that promise he made to his brother? He's got a closet full of bartender outfits at home, and they'll just serve to remind him that he had broken it. As he walks out of the police station, it is here that he gets his final job offer: the one he actually manages to stick to. An old friend from middle school, Tanaka Tom, approaches him and invites him to work in a debt-collection agency. Shizuo doesn't like the idea of it at first. He knows that he would be the muscle behind the operation, and the last thing he would ever want to do is actually hurt people for a living. Tom reassures him, though. Because the name 'Heiwajima Shizuo' was quite a well-known and powerful one in Ikebukuro --no surprise there, considering what Shizuo did to the city from time to time-- Tom only had the intention of using him to scare the debtors into payment. There was no actual violence involved
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The first thing any normal, sane person in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo will tell you when you mention Shizuo's name is "If you see that guy, run. Don't look him in the eye, don't talk to him, don't talk loudly around him --just run." And they're right, Heiwajima Shizuo is bad news. Dubbed, quite appropriately, the strongest man in Ikebukuro, Shizuo has strength like you won't even imagine. He can catapult vending machines miles away, literally punch a guy right out of his clothes and to the other end of the street, and rip signboards out of their cement foundation like one would pluck a flower. The weirdest thing? He is 100%, no-mistake-about-it, human. His biological composition is just like that of everyone else in the series, but there is one very important factor that makes that huge difference in power ( ... )
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So, after that day, it started: his violent, shitty childhood. With lifeless eyes, Shizuo -- who was only in the third-grade at that time -- endured everything. Was it painful? Fuck yes, but he never complained --simply accepting it as a physical manifestation of his anger. It wasn't long before Shizuo was thrown into a vicious cycle. Violence brought him pain, pain brought him frustration, frustration led to anger, anger lead to violence - and so on. Violence - as much as he despises it - is a natural impulse to him. The brain, overcome by fury, would scream commands at the body to exhaust the environment and achieve one particular goal - destruction. (Destroy that bastard, destroy everything around you, kill him, crush him, tear his limbs.) It wasn't long before the young Shizuo succumbed to the impulse. Well, actually, it wouldn't be wrong to say he barely even tried resisting to begin with. He had a choice: Brave the beast within --through grinding teeth and trembling, bloody, clenched fists-- or simply detach himself, remove ( ... )
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Imagine, then, how he felt when he passed by her shop one day --to find his favourite shopkeeper being bullied by a group of mobsters. Anyone would be pissed. She was such a nice lady. Who the hell did those mobsters think they were?! Of course, if this was enough to ruffle the feathers of a regular person, then there was no telling what Shizuo's reaction would be. A snap of the lollipop he was holding, a stomp as it cracked into a million shards under his foot, and everything went blank. There were no more coherent thoughts in that child's head; only a messy stream of 'killDESTROYkillSLASHkillCRUSHkillNOMERCY'. The body moves before the conscious mind can stop it; and when Shizuo finally came back to reality, he was standing amid the warzone he crafted with his own hands. There were bodies piled up around him, and he recognises one of them by her pretty apron and soft, closed eyes.
Shit, he screwed up.Shizuo couldn't look that woman in the eye after that. Who could? What he had inflicted on her and her store was far more severe ( ... )
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It turned out that Izaya was pulling the strings all along. He had framed Shizuo for countless things he did not do; so generously making enemies for him out of people he had never even met. Shizuo was right about his first gut feeling -- Izaya is nothing short of a huge douche. And so, upon realising this, it began. Sparks would fly whenever the two of them caught even the slightest glimpse of each other; and not so long after, a classroom door or maybe a water cooler would follow suit. The quiet school life he had envisioned was moving further and further from his reach -- and it was quite clearly that damn louse's fault. Shizuo began to hold a grudge for Izaya. One he would keep all the way until adulthood ( ... )
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He gets released soon after when they finally confirm his innocence, and walks out unemployed once more. It isn't a good feeling. What about that promise he made to his brother? He's got a closet full of bartender outfits at home, and they'll just serve to remind him that he had broken it. As he walks out of the police station, it is here that he gets his final job offer: the one he actually manages to stick to. An old friend from middle school, Tanaka Tom, approaches him and invites him to work in a debt-collection agency. Shizuo doesn't like the idea of it at first. He knows that he would be the muscle behind the operation, and the last thing he would ever want to do is actually hurt people for a living. Tom reassures him, though. Because the name 'Heiwajima Shizuo' was quite a well-known and powerful one in Ikebukuro --no surprise there, considering what Shizuo did to the city from time to time-- Tom only had the intention of using him to scare the debtors into payment. There was no actual violence involved ( ... )
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